Cooper Flanagan, 2023 4* TE, Concord (De La Salle), CA (Offered)

Flanagan began reading his poems around Southern California in the mid-1970s, and was part of the poetry community at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center. He published his first book, The Kid is the Man, with Bombshelter Press in 1978.[6]

Flanagan met Sheree Rose in 1980,[7] and collaborated closely with her for the rest of his life. Through the 1980s, Flanagan and Rose focused on BDSM community education and organizing, and were founding members of the Los Angeles chapter of the Society of Janus. Their work in performance art began with the 1989 piece Nailed, presented in conjunction with the release of the RE/Search publication Modern Primitives.[8] In Nailed, Flanagan nailed his penis and scrotum to a board while singing "If I Had a Hammer."[9]